M 5.2 in Kermadec Islands Region on 18 Aug 2017 18:52 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1119576
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -29.474 , -176.1478
Event Date: 18 Aug 2017 18:52 UTC
18 Aug 2017 06:52 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Aug 2017 19:23 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000a9i5 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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Faktencheck: Hat Merkel ihr Wort gebrochen?Tue, 22 Aug 2017 17:36:00 +0200.

Berlin - Vizekanzler und Ex-SPD-Chef Sigmar Gabriel hat Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel (CDU) in einem Interview der Deutschen Presse-Agentur vorgeworfen, in den vergangenen Jahren bei wichtigen politischen Entscheidungen ihr Wort nicht gehal
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),